Britney Spears’ highly anticipated memoir, which is expected to chronicle the years she spent in a restrictive conservatory that finally came to a dramatic end in a Los Angeles courtroom, will be released Oct. 24 by Gallery Books, the publisher announced Tuesday. known.
The book, titled “The Woman in Me,” discusses the 2021 exit from the Conservatory and the impact it had on changing “the course of her life and the lives of countless others,” according to the publisher, who published a print belongs to Simon and Schuster.
On Twitter, Spears posted a link to a website for the book with a graphic reading: ‘My story. On my terms. Finally.”
The singer’s father, James P. Spears, was named her conservator in 2008 over concerns about her mental health and exerted control over her personal life and finances for more than a decade, even as she continued to perform.
After news articles and documentaries began exploring the nature of the conservatory, and thousands of her fans lobbied for it to end as part of what came to be known as the #FreeBritney movement, Spears publicly denounced the arrangement two years ago.
Spears gave an impassioned speech to the judge overseeing her case, claiming she had been drugged and forced to work against her will, calling the arrangement “abusive” and her treatment “traumatizing.”
“I just want my life back,” she said.
A few months later, the judge suspended Mr. Spears from his position as overseer of her estate. And on November 12, 2021, the judge ruled that the guardianship was ended.
Since then, Spears, 41, has discussed aspects of her experience in Instagram posts, criticizing her father’s involvement in the arrangement, but has yet to give a formal interview or give her full account. She mentioned the forthcoming book last year in a since-deleted post, calling the process “healing and therapeutic.”
Since the legal settlement ended, Spears has announced her marriage to Sam Asghari, something she had said she couldn’t do under conservatory, and briefly returned to the music industry, releasing a song with Elton John. Spears’ career has otherwise been relatively uneventful since the high-profile court case, though she offered her support for a Broadway musical centering on her music.
On the book’s website, the publisher described it as a “courageous and amazingly moving story of freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith and hope.”
